Cupboard



Vmmh 27, 192s.

A. H. F. MAROHN cuPBoAan Filed Feb. 25, 1927 :s sham-sheet 1 latentedMar.` 27, 1928.

PATENT OFFICE.

A'LEBT HERMANN FRANZ MABOHN, 0F HAMBURG, GERMANY.

CUIBCARD.

Application led February 25, 1927, Serial No. 171,012, and in GermanyDecember 3, 1926.

This invention relates to a cupboard the walls of which are partlyadapted to be folded over in inward direction so that, if it is not tobe used as cupboard, it may be used as a table or the like and that, forinstance at removals, it requires lit-tle space and is easy totransport. In this respect it differs from cupboards the walls of whichconsist of separate elements which at removal. get easily damaged orlost.

An embodiment of the invention shown, by way of example, in theaccompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation partly insection.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section.

Fig. 3 is an elevation seen from the rear.

Fig. 4 shows in front elevation the folded cupboard.

Fig. 5 shows in perspective View the cup board partly folded.

The cupboard consists of a lower part 2 fixed on a base plate 1, and ofan upper part having a top plate 3 and composed of several parts andhingedly fixed on the lower part. The lower parts 4 of the doors arepivotally mounted on the lower part of the cupboard by means of pivotpins 5. The upper parts 6 of the doors are hingedly connected to thelower parts of the doors so that, when the top plate 3 of the cupboardis removed, in which said upper door parts (i are pivotally mounted bypivot pins T, said upper door parts can be folded over into thecupboard. On the up oer parts 8 of the lower side walls 9, which may befolded over into the cupboard in a similar manner as the upper parts ofthe doors, the upper front corners 10 are ixed by means of hinges 11.The upper part of the rear wall consists of a central part 17, hingedlyfixed on the lower part 12 of the rear wall and of two side parts 13,the outer edge 14 of each side part having a groove 15 designed to gripover the longitudinal edge 17 of the upper side walls 18 on each ofwhich edges a tongue 16 is arranged. Each upper edge of the parts 8, 10,13 and 17 has a tongue 18 and the lower edges 19 of the lid 3 have alsoeach a tongue, said. tongues overlapping one another when the top plateis placed on the cupboard. The top plate is securely held in position bymeans of slides 2() having each a conical groove by means of which theyare guided on'wedge-shaped bars 2l, fixed on the inner surfaces of thetop plate and of the upper side walls 8. The top plate 3 may be hingedlyconnected with the lower part 2 at the rear side of the saine by meansof hinges 22.

I claim Folding cupboard, comprising in combina-- tion with a baseplate, a lower part of the cupboard rigidly connected with said bas-seplate, an upper part of the cupboard composed of several elements eachof which is hingedly fixed on said lower part of the cupboard andadapted, to be folded over into the lower part of the cupboard, a topplate,

and means for securely connecting the elements of the upper part ofthefcupboard with said top plate when the upper part of the cupboard isin the position for use.

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature.

ALBERT HERMANN FRANZ MAROHN.

